WILLIE E. PHILLIPS

CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Willie Elbert Phillips of Charleston will be held at 2 p.m. today at McMikle Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Gerald Collier will officiate, with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery.

Phillips, 89, died Tuesday, May 25, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center.

He was born Oct. 8, 1903, at Imboden, Ark., son of Leonard Elbert and Cora Johnson Phillips. He and Lucille Hunt were married Feb. 10, 1951.

Phillips retired from Brown Shoe Co. in 1955. He was a member of First Baptist Church here.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Carla Groves of Wyatt; a stepson, Joe Foster of Zellwood, Fla.; a stepdaughter, Gay Tyler of Tampa, Fla.; a sister, Maggie Palmer of Tampa; three grandchildren, and six stepgrandchildren.

He was preceded in death by four sisters.